The primary purpose of the Police Real-time On-line Management Information System (PROMIS) is to provide an internal case management tool for police business. The purpose of publishing recorded incidents and offences data is to inform the Northern Territory Government and broader community on trends and patterns in key crime indicators, including domestic and family violence.

Description

PROMIS is an operational system that contains data relating to reported incidents and offences recorded by the Northern Territory Police. PROMIS is used to record incidents that come to the attention of Northern Territory Police and to flag incidents involving Family Violence.

Known outcomesapplication for violence order violence order issued offender charged offender went to court offender found guilty offender sentence type
child protection involvement
time off work / economic costs
medical treatment received / type
changed routine
other

Other personal data items

Children present;Children exposed/not exposed

Data Item

Incident

Location home workplace school/place of education/institution public place other

Street number; Locality

Relationship between partiesmarried/de facto spouse current / former partner/boyfriend/girlfriend parent-child
sibling
other member of household
other relatives
relationships of personal or financial dependency

Domestic and family related incidents include all incidents where the nature of the incident is between people in a ‘domestic relationship’, according to the definition in Section 9 of the Act. This definition includes intimate partners (who are married or unmarried, in de facto relationships, boyfriends, girlfriends, gay or straight) and violence between other members of a family, household or community.

Such incidents cover the range of behaviours described in Section 5 of the Act and include: conduct causing harm, for example, sexual or physical assault; damaging property, including the injury or death of an animal; emotional abuse; intimidation; financial deprivation; stalking; economic abuse; social isolation; and spiritual abuse or attempting or threatening to commit the above-mentioned conduct. It also includes child abuse and neglect.

Northern Territory Police policy defines domestic and family related incidents to include all incidents resulting in police being called where the nature of the incident is between people in family, carer and intimate relationships (that is, a “domestic relationship” under section 9 of the Act).

The legislation is linked into the Northern Territory Police’s Best Practice Manual. This Manual is a guide for police officers on how information is to be recorded in PROMIS.

Aspects of FDV captured in the data are:

Physical abuse

Sexual abuse

Psychological / Emotional abuse

Economic abuse

Social abuse

Property damage

Harassment and Stalking

Relationship to Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence (Cat. No. 4529.0)

Conceptual Framework Element / Sub-element

Amount of Information Available

None

Some

Detailed

Context

Environmental Factors

Individual pyscho-social factors

Risk

Community prevalence

Community incidence

Understandings and acknowledgments of risk and safety

Incident

Responses

Informal responses

Formal system responses

Impacts/Outcomes

Programs, Research & Evaluation

Collection methodology

The Northern Territory Police use PROMIS to record incidents that come to their attention. Northern Territory Police business systems, including PROMIS and Intergraph Computer Aided Dispatch (ICAD) automatically capture all reported crime incidents and victimisation. All reports to police in Darwin and Alice Springs are automatically entered into the ICAD system which then creates a record in PROMIS. Subsequent inquiries by the Police determine what, if any, offences are associated with the incident and are recorded in PROMIS.

For the selected offences of interest, every distinct offence recorded in an incident in PROMIS is counted. The counting rule used for reporting purposes is based on the number of unique offences within a reported incident. As such, a single criminal incident may result in a number of offences being recorded on one crime report.

All domestic and family violence related incidents reported to the Northern Territory Police are entered into PROMIS as ‘family violence’ cases by means of the ‘Family Violence Case’ Indicator that must be checked for each incident.

Scope / target population

All Northern Territory residents.

Coverage

All reported incidents of family violence are recorded in PROMIS. If the incident is not reported it is not recorded.

Data may be aggregated for the urban centres of Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy and NT Balance. The six urban centres are equivalent to the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek , Alice Springs and the Statistical Local Area of Nhulunbuy (ASGC 2001).

Frequency / Timing

Updated continually

Quarterly publication

Collection history

Collection commenced:2004

Breaks in series: no

Other details: n/a

Data availability / Dissemination

De-identified data is available on request, at no cost and but subject to executive approval.

Other data sources held by this agency

n/a

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